Truckee (AO 147) - Naval Cruise Book

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A crew of seventeen officers and 291 enlisted men keep the super oiler servicing the fleet. TRUCKEE is over 100 feet longer than the Washington monument is tallg her overall length is 655 feet 10 inchesg her beam is 86 feet 4 inchesg and her displacement is 40,000 tons. TRUCKEE is equipped to carry an underway replenish- ment group commander and his staff. TRUCKEE also has a helicopter landing platform which enables her to conduct vertical replenishment along with fueling operations. TRUCKEE has deployed to the Mediterranean with the U. S. Sixth Fleet eight times, seven times serving as flagship for Commander Service Force Sixth Fleet. During her 1972 deployment TRUCKEE fueled over 184 ships in support of the Sixth Fleet. She also visited seventeen ports in six countries on three different con- tinents. Truckee River, California .xiwgxnfinfhu rv-77-. ,.7:7-7

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1 5 i f.j .1, Tlii' .ful 1511 1 fi ,L L 1 I L11 i 1 'ialfi' USS TRUCKEE iA0147J is one of the fastest and Kargest oilers in the United States Navy. She was com- missioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1955, and is homeported ir1 Norfolk, Virginia. Her primary mission is the complete underway replenishment of petroleum products to the fleet at sea. TRUCKEE was named after the Truckee River Qpictured below? which flows through western Nevada and eastern California. The river was named after an Indian Chief who, in 1844, befriended a party of lost, thirsty pioneers near the river. A0 147 USS TRUCKEE Throughout her distinguished career, TRUCKEE has steamed many miles and pumped many millions of gallons of fuel in support of Second and Sixth Fleets. She has been involved in fleet exercises from the Arctic Cir- cle to the Equator and from the Caribbean to the Eastern Mediterranean. During the Cuban Missile Crisis and more recently during the Jordanian Crisis of 1970, TRUCKEE played a major role in the support of the Fleet. TRUCKEE has indeed excelled in her role as the Can do, will do ship. I fx H, V YJ , '. if ,gf gf!! I 1 7 I . 5' 0 ft V, ff fb. f f, H, -ff ,fi ffl fm ,4 1 ,f 'MMVI I l l . 'V ,v-, I ,,f . ,ZA , , , r Q .4 in-f the 91? lllfed. herusen fell 4 i Tlllill mtl! hasaia ruin sperm

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